China Ends The One Child Policy - And It Just Might Save The Economy
This morning, China's Xinhua news agency reported that China's controversial one-child policy is to come to an end. This is a momentous occasion for China. The policy dates from 1979, when the...
View ArticleIn Moscow, France Signals Russia Sanctions End in July
Russia's replacement of French goods with Iran, other markets, wears on sanction regime.
View ArticleThis Entrepreneur Takes Her Company's Commitment To Transparency To A New...
Even after she sold her company for hundreds of millions, Shazi Visram continues her push to improve children's health one meal at a time.
View ArticleAbbVie Leads Charge As U.S. Companies Join FTSE4Good Index Series And Banks Exit
"Green" indices are rising in popularity as investors increasingly seek to put business in context of its surroundings, and its wider impact. FTSE4Good, the global index provided by FTSE Russell,...
View ArticleShazi Visram On Building A Multimillion-Dollar Business And Work-Family...
Shazi Visram, founder and CEO of Happy Family, talks about how she reinvented baby food and juggles work and family.
View ArticlePepsi Equipment Supplier Clan Reaches Billionaire Ranks
The family of Shi Zhongwei, chairman of Shenzhen-listed packaging equipment make Hangzhou Zhongya Machinery, has joined the ranks of the world’s billionaires. Hangzhou Zhongya Machinery raised $107...
View ArticleDanone Splashes Out On WhiteWave In Its Biggest Acquisition Ever
The $12.5 billion deal will strengthen the French dairy giant's non-milk product portfolio and double its size in the United States.
View ArticleDairy King: Danone To Acquire WhiteWave Foods In $10 Billion Milk Merger
It's a match made in milk heaven: Danone, the French dairy giant behind brands like Activa, Oikos and Dannon yogurt, announced Thursday morning that it will buy Silk Soy Milk maker WhiteWave Foods in a...
View ArticleIs Impact Investing A Solution To Global Problems?
Fran Seegull, Chief Investment Officer and Managing Director for ImpactAssets, a nonprofit financial services firm, says impact investing is a solution to global problems like climate change and...
View ArticleDannon Takes A Stance On GMOs, But Still Hesitant On Organic
Dannon has joined the food industry shift toward the healthy side, with executives on Thursday unveiling Dannon and Oikos Greek yogurt products with more natural and non-GMO ingredients. The company...
View ArticleLifelock Joins The Thematic Index Takeout List
We haven’t published the full list of positions in our Thematic Index yet, but we’re starting to wonder if those in the M&A world have gotten their hands on it. For the fifth time this year, one of...
View ArticleIFA 2018: 5 Big Consumer Technology Reveals
Analyst Mark Vena takes a look at 5 stand-out pieces of news from IFA 2018 in Berlin.
View Article5 Ways Big Food Companies Can Make America (And Themselves) Healthier
The packaged food giants won’t move fast enough until the executives who run them break free of their mid-20th century mindset about the ingredients to success in the grocery aisles.
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